The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-03-22
Labor and Industrial Notes.


Philadelphia Record
A Russian chemist has perfected method by
which petroleum be solidifed into bricks
for fuel
Foreign glass is backing out steadily under
the increasing competition of American glass
made with natural gas.
Four thousand tons Of old horse shoes are to
be exported to China, where they will be melted
MP into sabre blades and knives.
The best cotton factory in the world, when
put into operation, will be at Manchester, N. Fl.
A4tt will produce every six months 250O,000
pounds
A recent purchase of 21, 900 acres of mineral
lands, which is only one of many, was recently
made in Virginia, on which furnaces and mills
will be erected.
Unemployed labor, both skilled and unskilled,
: IL finding occupation. The strikes of the past
week show falling of in point of numbers.
Moderate advances being made in many
Industries and localities.
Gas fuel is gaining ground. locomotive
works and rolhng-mill at Paterson, N. j., will
use it. Jersey City manufacturers are preparing
TO introduce il, and in several other cities East
the economy of the system is being carefully
studied
The list OF employers who are sharing profits
with their employees is increasing The Spring
Geld Foundry Company is the latest addition to
the list P.isbury, the Minneapolis flour man.
has inaugurated it with satisfactory results.
Five or six other large concerns have tried it.
Boston locomotive works is advertising for
mechanics. Work is rushing at the Taunton
Locomotive Works. TIE Cramps have ordered
new screw milling machine from SOME Vermont
men that will make bolts out of 3a-inch stock,
which will be the largest machine of its kind.
A scheme is foot to utilize the pressure of
Nhe fresh water wells of Florida for manufacture
ing purposes. Water is found at a depth OF 250
feet, and in many wells there is a pressure of
fourteen pounds to the square inch. The theory
entertained Is, the creature the well the greater
the pressure.
Labor organization is being quietly pushed.
! The Knights lose good many members through
Indifference. Tho fever of anxiety has So bsided,
and the several failures have led outsiders to
doubt the value of membership. Trades-unions
are growing very slowly and endeavor to main
tain an exciusiveness which the Knights do not.
$500 900 cotton factory is to be built at Fort
Smith, Ark: 800, 900 one at Charlotte, N. c.;
one at Airy n. c.; one at Cleveland. Tenn; one
at Athens. besides numerous expansions In the
way OF machinery and additions. A cooperative
manufacturing company will erect 300 00O
mill at Georgetown, Tex. An immense cotton
factory is to be erected at Columbus, Miss.
- It has been suggested to .ho knights ana 9th
er labor unions that they allow outsiders the
%~privlege of delivering short lecture once OIL
twice a month any subject the lecturer might
select. 1t is thought that there not few
who would take such an opportunity to talk Il
labor on the various questions on which wage
workers are interested to the end that the,
would be better able to deal intelligently will
them.
Richmond Va, is becoming an industrial cen
ter. A Bessemer steel works is being built OF
Belle Isle. A glass works on the operative
plan will turn out IL. 600 pounds per day. A sho
factory will be started on large scale. The AL
benare Paper Company will make paper OF
Aug. l. A large brick works will be built T.
make bricks for Northern markets ont of Ches
terfield clay. The Richmond & Danville Com
pany will soon have grand depot
Iron and steel-makers and manufacturers VIII,
use these products material will,
rule, be taxed to their fullest capacity between
now and midsummer. In every branch Of in
dustry engagements are in progress. Foupdrie
are expanding their limits and facilities; Ca
works must increase their machinery; jocomo
tive wo rks are going along quietly. Makers o
all kinds of heavy machinery have very larg
contracts on hand. One concern is preparing I
make wrought iron pipe twenty four inches i
diameter. Mechanics are SURPRISING themselve
in all industries with their remarkable achieve
1nents
American bridge builders are teaching the res
OF the engineering world how to construct bridge
Of great length, strain, endurance and perma
nency More bridge work is projected at thi
date than ever in the history of the country
Two are projected across the Hudson; six acros
the Mississippi; two across the Missouri: $40
000 600 bridge across the Potomac, $50 fee
long, besides multitude of smaller bridges
The bridge works are consequently Overrun wit
work and bridge iron-makers unable to o.
cept all the business offered. Four brdge-built
ing works are projected, and an expansion
mill capacity is going on.